bringing the activator protein into physical proximity with RNA polymerase and the other proteins in the complex that promote the initiation of transcription (Figure 4). Different cell types ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology ...

Researchers have struggled to unravel what causes cryptic transcription in human cells because cryptic transcripts are difficult to detect and distinguish from other RNA transcripts with traditional ...

Proteins that trigger cell senescence occupy much of the literature on aging, but a small RNA moves into the limelight ... The researchers went back to the drawing board and emerged with a new ...

Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell ...